A writer friend of mine recently posed a question on Facebook…why is it that strangers see your worth…and…appreciate you…but…your own family continues to take you for granted…
Well…Bertha…immediately jumped all over that one…but not the way that I had…imagined…even hoped…she would…yes…I thought she would bemoan…how under loved and underappreciated I am…
Instead…she turned the question around…asking me…if my family and friends would ask the same question about me…
What…well…uh…no…of course they wouldn’t…
But…honestly…sometimes…they would…
Sometimes…I get so busy and tangled up in my life…that…I don’t truly appreciate everything that I should…or…that’s not quite true…I appreciate it…I just don’t get around to expressing it…and…for some reason…I just…assume…that they know…that it is somehow understood…
Bertha…laughed…and assured me that the…assume…rule definitely applies here…she…also reminds me…that everyone…needs three things…
To be loved…to be heard…to be understood…
And…that part of being loved is being acknowledged…and…she challenges me…to love…to hear…to understand…and…to acknowledge…today…
Hmmm…I think I have a bit of work to do today…and…for days to come…
Jane
